Stories & Testimonies

The Revolutionary Youth (RY),[1] locally known as Taveras Ciwanên Şoreşger, continues to recruit minors in Syria’s northeastern areas, sometimes through kidnapping. The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES),…

  Background Twice in last March, Arab residents displaced from Shuyukh al-Fawqani district of Ayn al-Arab/Kobanî city in Aleppo, appealed to the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES)…

Executive Summary On the evening of 20 March 2023, three members of the Eastern Army/Jaysh al-Sharqiya—affiliated with the “Liberation and Building Movement” (LBM) of the opposition’s Syrian National Army (SNA),…

Executive Summary: The 13th of November 2019 coincides with the 59th anniversary of the fire of the Shahrazad Cinema in Amuda City, al-Hasakah Province in northeast Syria, which the city…

Introduction: On March 29, 2019, Mustafa Fattrawi was arrested by the Military Security Service in Homs city, a day which was to mark the beginning of five bitter years of…

Being a maktum[1], Dawran Ibrahim Khalil failed to legalize his status and get the Syrian nationality even though 57 years separate him from the special census conducted back in 1962,…

As a stateless Syrian Kurds from the maktumeen class, Nasr El Din was not allowed to possess or acquire any property. He has been deprived of all his civil and…

Ali is a stateless Syrian Kurdi, specifically from the maktumin class and has been living in a constant fear of being arrested by the Syrian security service agents for not…

Luqman Yousif Abdu is still unable to register his children because of the fact that he is a Syrian stateless Kurd, categorized under the maktumeen by the 1962 special census.…